Events

Current Events

The Space Between Us: Sreshta Rit Premnath discusses his art practice with Robert Wiesenberger

August 28, 2024

November 19 Thursday, 4:30pm | Oakley Center

Rit Premnath, Associate Professor of Art at Williams College, in conversation with Rob Wiesenberger, Curator of Contemporary Projects at The Clark Art Institute

Sreshta Rit Premnath’s recent installations, videos and paintings have explored the interdependent relationship between bodies, and the architecture that supports and confines them. He is particularly interested in how our occupation of space and endurance over time is shaped by systems of power and control. Wiesenberger will join Premnath to discuss his recent projects and new work in progress.

Belly of a Glacier: A Conversation about Art and Ecological Care

August 28, 2024

December 3 Thursday, 4:30pm | Oakley Center

Ohan Breiding, Visual Artist and Assistant Professor of Art, with Susan Cross, MASS MoCA Senior Curator, and Lisa Dorin, WCMA Deputy Director

Oakley movie night: All The President’s Men

August 28, 2024

December 5 Thursday, 7:30pm | Oakley Center

All the President’s Men is a 1976 American biographical political thriller film about the Watergate that brought down the presidency of Richard Nixon. Directed by Alan J. Pakula, with a screenplay by William Goldman and starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman, is based on the 1974 non-fiction book by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, the two journalists investigating the scandal for The Washington Post.

Past Events

 

Jacob’s Pillow, A Legacy Institution: Relevance in a Changing World

Movie Night: A Night of Knowing Nothing

Provenance and Restitution: The AfricaMuseum (Belgium) and “Its” Objects

The Far Right Populist Wave

Movie Night: Dry Ground Burning

Why Weimar Matters Today: Reflections on Netflix Series Babylon Berlin

The Iconography of Devotion in Muslim South Asia

Printing in the Darkroom: the Creativity of an Intimate Practice

Colloquium with Nikhil Goyal

Colloquium with Zachary Wadsworth

When Life Gives You Lemons, Paint Them

Colloquium with Gulnur Mukazhanova

Movie Night: Hollywood

Colloquium with Janet Roitman

Colloquium with Padmini Chettur

Davis Lecture: Robin Zape-tah-hol-ah Minthorn

Colloquium with Elidor Mëhilli

Movie Night: Nollywood

Colloquium with Nancy Ancrum

Colloquium with Hernan Diaz

Colloquium with kelli rae adams

Movie Night: Bollywood

Colloquium with Reinhard Kleist

Abortion Rights in the Deep South: Reflections on the Ongoing Struggle for Reproductive Justice

Zhuangzi and the Tragedy of Personal Freedom in Chinese History

Tactics at the Bakery

The Haitian Revolution and the Reinvention of Sociology

The MENA Question: Studying an Invisibilized Community thru Humanistic and Quantitative Approaches

The U.S. Supreme Court and the Impossibility of Religious Freedom

How Chisme Informs Communal Contributions

HEBA GOWAYED

An Ontology of Betrayal*: A conversation on Politics, Theory, Antiblackness, Gender and Freedom: Frank B. Wilderson, III, Selamawit D. Terrefe, and Joy James

Apostles of Change

Feeding Fascism: The Politics of Women’s Food Work: Diana Garvin

Policing Black Women: The Urgency of Reproductive Justice: Dorothy E. Roberts

Post-Discipline: Literature, Professionalism, and the Crisis of the Humanities: Merve Emre

The Secretive Prisons that Keep Migrants out of Europe: Ian Urbina

Screenwriting from the Academy: Rebecca Connor & Paul Park

P@W: Disease, Activism and Student Life, Part 4 in the Pandemic Series

Corona Time: Temporalities of Race and Disease, Part 1 in the Pandemic Series

Corona Time: Isolation, Emergency and Surveillance, Part 2 in the Pandemic Series

Corona Time: Racism and Disease, Part 5 in the Pandemic Series

Corona Time: Racism and Disease, Part 5 in the Pandemic Series

P@W: A Semester in Pandemic, Part 7 in the Pandemic Series

Corona Time: Masks and Vaccines, Part 14 in the Pandemic Series

Corona Time: Global Health, Part 12 in the Pandemic Series

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P@W: The Way Forward, Part 13 in the Pandemic Series

P@W: Pandemic Inequalities, Part 11 in the Pandemic Series

P@W: Pandemic Sciences, Part 9 in the Pandemic Series

Pandemic Series

Corona Time: Epidemic Empire, Part 8 in the Pandemic Series